Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 13 44
Rank change year-on-year -50 +31 -22
Permanent jobs citing Python 23 109 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.36% 16.49% 3.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.64% 43.08% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 22 13 22
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,026 £48,306 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £87,188 £57,500 £71,651
90th Percentile £109,000 £59,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 182 253 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.73% 38.28% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 170 79 386
10th Percentile £40,900 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,188 £58,125 £63,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington -25 11 £73,750 +52.67% 3
Chester -14 3 £85,000 +54.55% 7
Knutsford -5 2 £79,500 +54.00% 3
Crewe -12 2 £32,500 -40.91%
Macclesfield - 2 £30,500 -
Widnes -1 1 £39,602 -
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) SaaS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) Bluetooth
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
2 1 (4.35%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) Redis
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Claude Code
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Electronics
3 2 (8.70%) Multimedia
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 3 (13.04%) Research Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Research Scientist
4 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Trainee
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) React Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
1 4 (17.39%) React
1 4 (17.39%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) Laravel
3 2 (8.70%) Nuxt
3 2 (8.70%) PySpark
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) Vue
4 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Robotics
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (4.35%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) AI
3 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) B2B
6 4 (17.39%) Business Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) ERP
6 4 (17.39%) LLM
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) Applied Mathematics
7 3 (13.04%) Benchmarking
7 3 (13.04%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C#
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) C
4 3 (13.04%) C++
4 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (8.70%) PHP
6 1 (4.35%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) R
6 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
2 3 (13.04%) PhD
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) QRadar
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk